Implement for punching belts.



PATENTED FEB. 14,1905.

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UNITED STATES Patented February 14, 1905.

WHITFORD VVOODLEY, OF ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA.

IMPLEMENT FOR PUNCHING BELTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 782,307, dated February 14, 1905.

A li ation fil d April 29, 1904:. Serial No. 205,565.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, WHITFORD W. WooDLEY, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Elizabeth City, county of. Pasquotank, State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Implements for Punching Belts, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my implement; Fig. 2, a vertical transverse section of the apparatus, and Fig. 3 a back view thereof.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple punching device especially adapted for.

use in connection with a combination implement for preparing and fastening the abutting ends of machinery-belts, said combination implement preferably embodying in addition-to the punching devices certain means for squaring the ends of the belt which are to be abutted and fastened together, means for clamping the abutting ends of the belt while the fastening-wire is being interlaced, and an anvil for hammering down the fastening-wire after it is laced, as-more fully here inafter set forth.

Referring to the drawings by letters, a designates a bracket or standard which is provided at its lower end with a pair of slots a, by means of which and a pair of suitable bolts the appliance may be fastened to a convenient part of a larger machine or to any other suitable support. (Jastintegral with this bracketplate a is a rectangular table 6, having in turn formed integral with it at its rear edge an upright flange 0, which is thickened at its upper end to form an anvil whose upper surface is fiat. This flange is provided with a lacing-opening and suitable clamp-bars d to -hold the ends of the belt while being laced,

suitable support below the upper surface thereoffor the punching devices.

The punching devices consist of an upper member or bar g, bolted to the face of the plate f just under an overhanging flange h on the front edge of the table, and amovable member 11, consisting of a plate slidablymounted on the face of plate f just below the stationary member g, this slidable member being attached to the face of the plate f by vertical bars 76, bolted to the face of said plate near each end thereof and beveled along their inner edges. This slidable plate carries along its upper edge a series of punches y,

toothed gear-wheel m, journaled on a horizontal pin 7% in a slot in the lower end of plate 6, the teeth of this gear meshing with a rack 0, depending from and forming an integral part of the table-plate f. To operate this gear, I employ a lever 12 and attach it to the gear at such an angle that when the punchcarrying plate is down the lever will also be down out of the way. With this manner of operating the punch-carrying plate it will be observed that the same may be forced upward with considerable power and also that the operating-lever is always in engagement with the punch-carrying plate.

In using this implement the ends of the belt to be fastened together are first squared by means of the straight-edge e and a suitable knife held in the hand of the operator. Then the ends of the belt are inserted singly or together under bar 9 and on top of bar Z'. Then by raising lever e the punches will be forced through the ends of the belt, and when the lever is swung down the strip or bar Z will strip the leather off the punches. After the belt is thus punched it is placed in the clamp on the back of the anvil and suitably laced with wire, and after it is thus laced it is removed from the clamp and the wire lacing is hammered down on the upper flat face of the anvil.

It will be obvious that instead of using the stripping device shown and described in this application I may use instead the stripping device shown in my copending application, Serial N 0. 179,314:, in which the stripping device consists of a hook-like part attached to the movable member in such a position that When the movable member is drawn down the leather is pulled 01f the punches, the latter being in this instance carried by the stationary member.

' Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is r 1. In a punching implement, the combination of a table carryinga depending supporting-plate and a depending bracket-plate, the latter adapted for attachment to a support, and punching means carried by said supportingplate below the table-top, said punching means consisting of two members, the upper one being stationary and the lower one vertically movable, a series of punches carried by the lower member, a stripping-plate between the members, a rack-bar carried by the supportingplate, a gear journaled on the movable member and engaging the rack and connected to an operating device.

2. In combination, a supporting plate, punching means carried by said plate, said means consisting of a stationary member and a movable member, one of the members carrying punches, and means for operating the movable member, said means consisting of a rack held stationarily and a gear jou rnaled on the movable member and provided with means for operating it.

3. In a punching implement, the combination of a supporting-plate and punching devices carried thereby, said'devices consisting of a stationary member and a movable member, one of these members carrying the punches, a rack-bar carried by the supportingplate, a gear journaled on the movable member and engaging said rack, and an operatinglever attached to said gear.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aifix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses, this 27th day of April, 1904.

WHITFORD W. WOODLEY.

Witnesses:

- RILEY CARROLL ABBOTT, WM. C. GLOVER. 

